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C++ In a Nutshell
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C++ In a Nutshell

by Ray Lischner
May 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
808 pages
32h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

explicit specifier — Explicit constructor specifier

Synopsis

               function-specifier := explicit

The explicit specifier can be used with a constructor to prevent implicit type conversions. It is permitted for any constructor but makes sense only for constructors that can be called with a single argument. An explicit constructor can be invoked from a declaration that uses function-like initialization or from an explicit type cast but not from a declaration that uses assignment-like initialization, nor from an implicit type cast.

Example

struct point {explicit point(int x, int y = 0);
};
point p1(10);  // OK
point p2 = 10; // Error: would be OK without explicit
point p3;
p3 = 20;       // Error: would be OK without explicit
p3 = static_cast<point>(40); // OK

See Also

class, declaration, function, static_cast, type, Chapter 2, Chapter 6

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